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Karlovy Vary International Film Festival · 2019

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2019

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14 films · 1 review

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Communion Los Angeles

Using time-lapse photography, the filmmakers capture the relentless bustle of the city and its inhabitants, on Route 110 in LA.

(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Adam R Levine, Peter Bo Rappmund; Writer: Adam R Levine, Peter Bo Rappmund)

The Glamorous Boys Of Tang

Inspired by the 1980s Taiwanese erotic fantasy The Glamorous Boys of Tang, this film reimagines certain scenes which didn’t make it into the original picture for censorship and funding reasons.

(Country: Taiwan; Year: 2019; Director: Su Hui-Yu; Writer: Su Hui-Yu; Stars: Parrot Caille, Huang Hsu-Wei, Kuo Meng-Shin, Alphonse Perroquet, Popcorn, Wu Pei-Ting, Quail Youth-Leigh)

The Grand Bizarre

Filmed over five years and in as many countries, this all-analogue travelogue finds thousands of textiles and printed designs dancing across locations from Mexico to Morocco to India.

(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Jodie Mack)

Heimat Is A Space In Time

The filmmaker immerses himself in four generations of his family's history.

(Country: Germany, Austria; Year: 2019; Director: Thomas Heise)

The Hidden City (La Ciudad Oculta)

Review preview for The Hidden City

Moreno's travels give us a sense of the enormity of what lies beneath, unhurried but curious in his progress, even homing in to look at the microscopic monsters we might not realise also make these caverns their home.

Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
Beneath the modern city, there lies a vast labyrinth, which the filmmaker explores.

(Country: Spain; Year: 2018; Director: Víctor Moreno)

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Interbeing

Film composed of shots taken with a thermal camera, which exposes the invisible traces that remain after fleeting, chance encounters.

(Country: Sweden; Year: 2018; Director: Martina Hoogland Ivanow)

Just Don't Think I'll Scream

The director recounts a personal crisis.

(Country: France; Year: 2019; Director: Frank Beauvais; Writer: Frank Beauvais)

Memento Stella

Experimental documentary considering our place in the stars.

(Country: Japan; Year: 2018; Director: Takashi Makino)

Meteorite (Meteorito)

Documenting a ritual in a cratered landscape.

(Country: Mexico; Year: 2018; Director: Mauricio Sáenz; Writer: Mauricio Sáenz; Stars: Arturo Díaz, Benito Espíndola, Gregorio Morales, Pablo Varela, Rodrigo Varela, Benito Vázquez, Arturo Díaz, Benito Espíndola, Gregorio Morales, Pablo Varela, Rodrigo Varela, Benito Vázquez)

Pareidolia

Abstract patterns are used as source material for creating similar figurative images as interpreted by an online search engine with its own algorithm.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2019; Director: Stefan Riesner, Christian Skibinski; Writer: Christian Skibinski)

Pwdre Ser: The Rot Of Stars

Pwdre ser is the Welsh name for the mythical substance star jelly, which has been observed since the 1400s. The film depicts an encounter with a mysterious, luminous, electrical substance.

(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Charlotte Pryce)

Tx-reverse

The filmmakers reverse the relationship between time and space, drawing their viewers in as they experience each frame as an impression of the entire time while only seeing part of the filmed space.

(Country: Austria; Year: 2019; Director: Martin Reinhart, Virgil Widrich; Writer: Martin Reinhart, Virgil Widrich)

Walled Unwalled

Consideration of isolationism and ways to overcome it.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2019; Director: Lawrence Abu Hamdan)

Water And Clearing

An old bucket travels to fill a well.

(Country: Austria; Year: 2018; Director: Siegfried A Fruhauf)